Jeb! Gets Shut Down By #BlackLivesMatter
Click here for reuse options!Advocates chanting “black lives matter” interrupted the end of Jeb Bush’s North Las Vegas town hall Wednesday night after he discussed solutions to racial injustice relating to fatal police shootings of black men.
While the Republican presidential candidate was leaving his event, several members of the crowd of about 150 people were seen chanting the mantra.
The former Florida governor had met with the advocates before his Wednesday night event, said his campaign in a statement to CNN.
“Gov. Bush listened to the group and they discussed barriers to upward mobility in this country, and ways to overcome them as a community by starting to get a few things right in government,” the statement said.
Bush said the recent shootings are serious problems, and that he would encourage local leaders to be more engaged in order to prevent “despair and isolation” in their communities.
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By: dave-dr-gonzo
David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.
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Obewon August 13th, 2015 at 09:43
The not as smart Bush Jr. Jeb / Cheney’16~ Cow Punked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_drtSa3KP6o
Let'sgiveP****Achance! August 13th, 2015 at 09:50
#stoptheBSnotheydont
Anomaly 100 August 13th, 2015 at 10:01
The BLM protesters were met with ‘All Lives Matter’ and ‘White Lives Matter’ chants from Bush supporters.
I am not fan of Jeb! Bush’s, but let’s hear candidates speak first, then mock them afterward.
Pick6 August 14th, 2015 at 15:34
Exactly right. Shutting down an event doesn’t sit any better with me when it’s done by people whose cause I support than it did during the disruptions prior to the passage of the ACA. As they did for the first time with the Bush event, they began their protest after Bush spoke. Still don’t like disruption for the sake of disrupting, but at least voting citizens got to hear from a candidate they either were supporting or evaluating.
Anomaly 100 August 14th, 2015 at 21:58
I want to hear what they have to say even if I can’t stand them. I want to know what their agenda is, not what a movement’s agenda – which I’m very familiar with already – is. I get that they’re angry and they have good cause to be but they aren’t going to win over supporters like this. Just my opinion.
Pick6 August 15th, 2015 at 00:21
I, too, want to hear what they have to say, and I want their movement to be successful, not just by raising awareness (as if that’s even needed at this point) but by being the impetus behind immediate and meaningful change. It makes my blood boil every time I hear of yet another black life cut short by law enforcement officers for such heinous crimes as not giving a turn signal, or not having a front license plate, and the every popular doing _______ while black, like walking in the middle of a road. E-bleepin’-gads, how many more have to die? That said, I think their tactics work against their goals and potential for success. I wish their leadership would reevaluate strategy and come up with a better path, one that others would enthusiastically want to follow. I wouldn’t presume to advise them, but I know with a bit of effort, a better strategy could be had.
greenfloyd August 15th, 2015 at 01:40
http://blacklivesmatter.com/
The Original Just Me August 13th, 2015 at 10:59
WOW, he had a 150 people at his appearance. Is that a new all time record LOW ?
Tommie August 13th, 2015 at 11:03
He did say BLM is a PC sign, like they do not matter! IMO!
Plain Vanilla August 13th, 2015 at 12:36
This BLM movement probably should chill a bit. It was cute when they did it once or twice but now it’s just obnoxious and counterproductive.
TuMadre, Ph.D August 13th, 2015 at 22:39
I found it counterproductive from the get. Look at their demands, from their own web page:
“We will seek justice for Brown’s family by petitioning for the immediate arrest of officer Darren Wilson and the dismissal of county prosecutor Robert McCullough. Groups that are part of the local Hands Up Don’t Shoot Coalition have already called for Wilson’s swift arrest, and some BLM riders also canvassed McCullough’s neighborhood as a way of raising the public’s awareness of the case.”
Except evidence has found Brown to be an attacker. This is a group of people who want to circumvent the court system.
“We will help develop a network of organizations and advocates to form a national policy specifically aimed at redressing the systemic pattern of anti-black law enforcement violence in the US. The Justice Department’s new investigation into St Louis-area police departments is a good start, but it’s not enough. Our ride was endorsed by a few dozen local, regional and national organizations across the country – like the National Organization for Women (Now) and Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation – who, while maintaining different missions, have demonstrated unprecedented solidarity in response to anti-black police violence. We hope to encourage more organizations to endorse and participate in a network with a renewed purpose of conceptualizing policy recommendations.”
When you want to look at the way that law enforcement acts, there are two possible causes: Firstly, the police are systematically racist, or secondly, blacks commit more crimes, causing the police to react in a manner that appears racist without close scrutiny. The reasons do not have to be exclusive, but for them to automatically presume that the entire police force is systematically racist, without investigation, is premature.
“We will also demand, through the network, that the federal government discontinue its supply of military weaponry and equipment to local law enforcement. And though Congress seems to finally be considering measures in this regard, it remains essential to monitor the demilitarization processes and the corporate sectors that financially benefit from the sale of military tools to police.”
A fair goal, but one that has nothing to do with race.
“We will call on the office of US attorney general Eric Holder to release the names of all officers involved in killing black people within the last five years, both while on patrol and in custody, so they can be brought to justice – if they haven’t already.”
This makes them sound like a lynch mob – and they just might be.
“And we will advocate for a decrease in law-enforcement spending at the local, state and federal levels and a reinvestment of that budgeted money into the black communities most devastated by poverty in order to create jobs, housing and schools. This money should be redirected to those federal departments charged with providing employment, housing and educational services.”
This lend credence to the fact that perhaps it isn’t that the police are racist – as that is a problem that could be fixed in time. They just want less enforcement of the law, and want to funnel that money into racially-biased programs. As far as employment – the government doesn’t create GDP, it consumes it. Housing is already available via Section 8 housing, and the reason nobody wants to live around there is due to the fact that Section 8 housing is used by the stupid, the lazy, and the unlucky (and the unfortunate people typically repair their lives as quickly as possible so that they can move out). As far as educational services goes, we already have a wide plethora of educational services available through the federal government. 12 years of general education, plus Pell grants and low-interest loans so that you can get a degree for something in-demand for cheap, such as plumbing, welding, non-destructive testing, HVAC, and becoming an electrician.
If the police WERE corrupt, they would advocate for mandatory cameras to be active on all officers at all active-duty times, and kept secure and encrypted in a third party’s servers, only to be pulled by court order – not by police request. This would require increased spending on law enforcement, not less.
Pick6 August 14th, 2015 at 15:38
I stopped reading when I got to the falsehood, “Except evidence has found Brown to be an attacker.”
TuMadre, Ph.D August 14th, 2015 at 21:09
It has. You can consider to live under a different delusion, but the only thing that contradicts that is witness testimony, the least reliable of all evidence AND many of the star witnesses were proven to be lying. Some were actually proven to be blocks away when the shooting happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMSO0CXnYtE
All of the information in this video is easily verifiable.
Pick6 August 14th, 2015 at 21:18
Ben Freakin’ Shapiro? You’re serious about that? No wonder you are so mis/uninformed. SMH
TuMadre, Ph.D August 14th, 2015 at 21:21
The person who makes the argument has nothing to do with the argument itself. Again, everything he says is sourced and easily referenced.
Pick6 August 14th, 2015 at 21:25
Sorry, not true. Not by a long shot.
TuMadre, Ph.D August 14th, 2015 at 23:42
Feel free to provide your own proof then.
whatthe46 August 14th, 2015 at 21:29
the one white woman who claimed to be an eyewitness to the entire incident, that the DA put before the GJ was not even in the fk’n neighborhood. is that the evidence you speak of? furthermore, no evidence was ever put before a jury. so, stop your damn lying you sorry sack of disgusting waste of oxygen.
TuMadre, Ph.D August 14th, 2015 at 23:44
I never said the word jury. You are pulling context from something that was never given.
As an aside, insults are not a replacement for an argument, and they make you look childish.
CandideThirtythree August 13th, 2015 at 14:10
So there were more protesters than fans there?
whatthe46 August 13th, 2015 at 14:10
lol
amersham46 August 13th, 2015 at 17:29
Jeb could be shut down trying to go up the down escalator
greenfloyd August 15th, 2015 at 01:21
After the dust settles and jeb gets restarted, I hope everyone will look at these BLM actions as learning moments on how not to present your issue. BLM will just not take “Yes!” as an answer.